BEWARE OF FALSE PROPHETS: CHARLES GRANDISON FINNEY - PHONY REVIVALIST & ARCH-HERETIC

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See our playlist called, "Dealing with Predestination, Arminianism & Calvinism" at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA932903698A56780 with 73 videos. Charles G. Finney was clearly & undeniably a heretic - he did not preach nor teach the true gospel as set forth in the Scriptures but rather a false & damnable theology. All Finney has accomplished is filling churches with false converts based on a false gospel & thus creating many tares among the wheat (Matthew 13:24-30). Larry Wessels, director of Christian Answers of Austin, Texas/ Christian Debater (YouTube channel CANSWERSTV; see our 19 playlists on our channel page covering numerous topics at http://www.youtube.com/user/CAnswersTV?feature=guide; websites: http://www.BIBLEQUERY.ORG, http://www.HISTORYCART.COM, & http://www.MUSLIMHOPE.COM) analyzes the theology of the famous 19th century "Father of Modern Revivalism" & advocate of "Christian perfectionism" Charles Grandison Finney. Finney, reacting against the pervasive Calvinism of the Great Awakening, the successors of that great movement of God's Spirit turned from God to humans, from the preaching of objective content (namely, Christ and him crucified) to the emphasis on getting a person to "make a decision." Larry Wessels is indebted to Dr Michael Horton, (website: http://www.whitehorseinn.org/) professor of Theology and Apologetics at Westminster Seminary California, editor-in-chief of "Modern Reformation" magazine, and host of the nationally syndicated radio broadcast, "The White Horse Inn" for his excellent research material used in the production of this video (see Dr. Horton's entire article, "The Disturbing Legacy of Charles Finney" at http://www.ukapologetics.net/08/FINNEY.htm). See also http://www.rlhymersjr.com/Articles/05-18-03EyeWitnessReports.html. Larry Wessels would also like to thank Jerry Johnson, president of NiceneCouncil.com (websites:http://www.NiceneCouncil.com, http://ApologeticsGroup.com & http://AgainstTheWorld.tv/) for granting permission to play a 10 minute clip of his ministry video "Beware of False Prophets: The Case Against Charles G. Finney." Charles Finney (1792-1875) ministered in the wake of the "Second Awakening," as it has been called. A Presbyterian layover, Finney one day experienced "a mighty baptism of the Holy Ghost" which "like a wave of electricity going through and through me ... seemed to come in waves of liquid love." The next morning, he informed his first client of the day, "I have a retainer from the Lord Jesus Christ to plead his cause and I cannot plead yours. "Refusing to attend Princeton Seminary (or any seminary, for that matter). Finney began conducting revivals in upstate New York. One of his most popular sermons was "Sinners Bound to Change Their Own Hearts." Finney's one question for any given teaching was, "Is it fit to convert sinners with?" One result of Finney's revivalism was the division of Presbyterians in Philadelphia and New York into Arminian and Calvinistic factions. His "New Measures" included the "anxious bench" (precursor to today's altar call), emotional tactics that led to fainting and weeping, and other "excitements," as Finney and his followers called them. Finney's Theology? One need go no further than the table of contents of his "Systematic Theology" to learn that Finney's entire theology revolved around human morality. Chapters one through five are on moral government, obligation, and the unity of moral action; chapters six and seven are "Obedience Entire," as chapters eight through fourteen discuss attributes of love, selfishness, and virtues and vice in general. Not until the twenty-first chapter does one read anything that is especially Christian in its interest, on the atonement. This is followed by a discussion of regeneration, repentance, and faith. There is one chapter on justification followed by six on sanctification. In other words, Finney did not really write a "Systematic Theology," but a collection of essays on ethics. Thus, in Finney's theology, God is not sovereign, man is not a sinner by nature, the atonement is not a true payment for sin, justification by imputation is insulting to reason and morality, the new birth is simply the effect of successful techniques, and revival is a natural result of clever campaigns. Not only did Finney the so-called "revivalist" abandon the doctrine of justification, making him a renegade against evangelical Christianity; he repudiated doctrines, such as original sin and the substitutionary atonement, that have been embraced by Roman Catholics and Protestants alike. Therefore, Finney is not merely an Arminian, but a Pelagian. He is not only an enemy of evangelical Protestantism, but of historic Christianity of the broadest sort. Matthew 7:15 Listen to our video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7e1aWfrQHg. Rob Zins, Th.M of Dallas Theological Seminary (website: http://www.CWRC-RZ.org) versus Dan Corner.